Does anyone think that the security threat and the detioration of peoples rights and freedoms, isn't about terrorism at all, but is about setting up a infrastrucuture for controlling and monitoring the poor and the disgruntled working classes - in a society that has one of the greatest disparities of wealth, and is worried about the effects of globalisation and the resulting threats of mass unemployment to the common citizen?
We are all slaves to debt, slaves to mortgages and slaves to our employers - and we ar being spoon fed a million boring and repetitie middle class morality tales... doesn't it seem like they are only now getting around to installing the cameras and the barbed wire?
2007-07-02 00:52:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The majority of working class people are slaves to the things I mentioned.
2007-07-02 00:58:02 · update #1
There is some truth in this. There are people who want to have control of us, but control in a way that we are not immediately aware of it. The best prison is one that you cannot see or touch.
What many people don't know is that there's a possibility that the people wanting to control us are playing both sides of this conflict, just as they were playing both sides of every major conflict in the last thousand years.
So the terrorist threat may be a prepared offensive against us as a way of encouraging us to give up another one of our freedoms. By giving up those freedoms, we are losing control of our own world to the small group that wants to control us - and they get control because we're giving it to them.
Our freedom to privacy has been taken away - London has an enourmous numbers of CCTV cameras that can track everyone. We allowed it to happen because we gave up that right as a way of combatting terrorist threats. We also partially gave up the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty - in the interests of safety and protection.
Which rights and freedoms are we going to be encouraged to give up this time? Governments and leaders of religious communities are being played - played by a small group of people we don't know (or perhaps they are public figures we do know, just not realising how influential they are in global terms).
All these "reasonable" steps we allow that eat away at our rights and freedoms, at some point we'll have no rights and freedoms left - and then only realise the slow assertion of control on our lives and world.
2007-07-02 01:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Isofarro 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In some respects, your inquiry is not new. Consider '1984' and 'Animal Farm,' by George Orwell, in which highly structured and controlled societies trample individual freedoms. Or, consider varieties of science fiction, from 'War of the Worlds' to 'The Day the Earth Stood Still.'
Granted, some sci-fi stories concern overarching fears of the time, such as nuclear warfare, but another concept that is quite prevalent is a third party control, which seeks to stymie individual freedoms.
Unfortunately, I think Orwell's vision in '1984' is slowly coming true...
2007-07-02 08:00:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is about stopping Terrorism. If you are a slave to debt , it is a self imposed sentence.
2007-07-02 08:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Doom 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
None of what you say it true. I am not a slave to anything. I know many people who are not slaves to anything. We need security to protect our freedoms.
2007-07-02 07:55:57 · answer #4 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes, its only a matter of time before the U.S. becomes a complete police state like most of Europe...
2007-07-02 08:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by ὀκτάπους 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I think it is a reasonable tool in assisting in the combat against terrorism.
2007-07-02 07:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by ALLEN B 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋